T Ford
- Created by: mturner02
- Created on: 20-01-18 14:05
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- Henry Ford
- Who?
- Founded Ford Motor Company in 1903
- Introduced the assembly line
- Made the Model T Ford
- The costs were low as there was only 1 kind available
- Ford instructed workers to only use black, for example. This was due to black drying the fastest
- The price dropped from $800 to $295 between 1911 and 1929
- 15 million people bought a Model T between 1911 and 1929
- The costs were low as there was only 1 kind available
- Was a European immigrant
- Impact of the motor industry
- The Model T was "an affordable car for ordinary people"
- They were hard to drive, ugly and slow. Yet they were reliable and built with easy to change parts
- The car kept getting cheaper
- By 1926, there were 20 million cars
- 1 in 2 cars was a ford
- Thousands of jobs were created
- 500 thousand jobs were in the car industry by 1925
- Jobs were made in the industries that supplied materials, not just the car comapnies
- Estimated that for every 1 worker in the car factory, there were 10 more making the parts needed
- A new sense of freedom came to car owners
- People didn't have to liver near their jobs in the town centre
- However, so many cars brought pollution, noise and traffic jams
- The Model T was "an affordable car for ordinary people"
- Who?
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